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​BY GEOFF SLOAN<br />

Nine-year-old Kiara Milner lives<br />

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She was born with part of her<br />

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“They chose love over fear.”<br />

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Angela Milner is fundraising for her granddaughter Kiara to attend weekly therapy at the new Centre of Movement, after earlier<br />

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“We held on to the hope that<br />

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Flow turns struggle into service<br />

​BY GEOFF SLOAN<br />

For more than a decade,<br />

Florence “Flow” Waaka has<br />

been cooking meals and<br />

offering warmth to those doing<br />

it tough.<br />

Waaka, 58, started Feed a Bro<br />

after being judged by others<br />

while seeking help to feed her<br />

family 10 years ago.<br />

“I was struggling on a benefit<br />

with a son and I was looking<br />

after my grandkids at the time,”<br />

she said.<br />

One of her friends told her<br />

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“So I went in, and all I could<br />

hear was people saying, ‘what’s<br />

that lady doing here? She<br />

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car and she doesn’t look like she<br />

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She said just because she had<br />

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well off.<br />

“The free food we got during<br />

the week helped me and my<br />

family to survive.”<br />

The experience left a sour<br />

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“I don’t judge anyone because<br />

I’m in the same boat as a lot of<br />

them. I really am.”<br />

Waaka organises free weekly<br />

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Family Playground on Mondays,<br />

and in Cathedral Square on<br />

Tuesdays.<br />

She also takes food out to<br />

Flow Waaka says about 30 people turn up for a meal each time she runs her free feeds.<br />

homeless people living in the<br />

red zone.<br />

“It’s never really planned.<br />

Just whenever I can, wherever<br />

there’s a need.”<br />

She said the meals weren’t<br />

only for those sleeping rough,<br />

but low income people with<br />

families as well.<br />

“They’re for anyone that’s<br />

struggling. A lot of people<br />

are too humble to go to these<br />

feeds and won’t go when they<br />

should.”<br />

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Known as ‘flowsfeeds’ on Tik-<br />

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“It’s the only way I can keep this<br />

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“I get a lot of feedback<br />

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for people in need<br />

think homeless people and<br />

people on a low incomes don’t<br />

deserve me doing this and they<br />

need to get out and get a job.<br />

“Well it’s okay for them to say<br />

that.”<br />

Waaka said high rents and<br />

the price of food going up were<br />

forcing some people to live in<br />

their cars.<br />

“Everything is just skyrocketing.<br />

I know what it’s like<br />

struggling with all the prices of<br />

food right now.”<br />

The beneficiary isn’t aligned to<br />

any charity or organisation.<br />

“I look at it like it’s my job,<br />

it’s what I do. Even though I’m<br />

getting a benefit from the government,<br />

I feel like I’m giving<br />

back, by what I'm doing.”<br />

Waaka has found it hard to<br />

find work, as she doesn’t have<br />

any qualifications.<br />

At one point she was also<br />

homeless with her son and two<br />

grandchildren.<br />

“I was working part-time and<br />

then my daughter needed some<br />

help. It wasn’t working out with<br />

childcare and all that, so I threw<br />

my job in to look after them.”<br />

She said rent became too<br />

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on the street.<br />

“I was staying at my sister’s<br />

and living in a car for probably<br />

about eight months before I got<br />

a house through Kāinga Ora.”<br />

She said much of the country<br />

still lacks compassion or understanding<br />

around the causes of<br />

homelessness.<br />

Flow Waaka and her volunteer<br />

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people needing a free meal.<br />

“Yes, some choose it, but<br />

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Waaka encourages people not<br />

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something for them. It doesn’t<br />

matter if it’s just making a pot<br />

of food and taking it down to<br />

them. There’s a lot of homeless<br />

people out there.”<br />

She said she was always<br />

looking for things to do and<br />

ways to encourage people to<br />

donate goods to “keep this thing<br />

going”.<br />

“This is it. This is my life.”<br />

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Historic Heathcote<br />

school bell taken<br />

​BY KEES CHALMERS<br />

A stolen 165-year-old school bell<br />

is believed to have been cut up<br />

and an attempt made to sell it<br />

for scrap.<br />

The Heathcote Valley School<br />

bell was stolen over the weekend<br />

of September 27-28.<br />

Principal Bruce Ellison said<br />

he was told by a parent the<br />

person involved in the theft<br />

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bronze bell to a scrap metal<br />

yard, but it was not accepted.<br />

“It’s got a lot of significance<br />

to the community, the fact it’s<br />

been there for so long, it’s an<br />

iconic piece of our identity,”<br />

Ellison said.<br />

Said school board member<br />

and parent Luke Gardiner:<br />

“The reaction is extremely sad,<br />

I didn’t think that was something<br />

that would happen with<br />

the amount of years it’s hung<br />

there.”<br />

Ellison took a photo of where<br />

the bell was usually located on<br />

Monday, September 29, during<br />

the school holidays. Two days<br />

later, he looked at the photo and<br />

realised the bell was missing.<br />

He assumed it had been taken<br />

over the weekend.<br />

The bell is believed to have<br />

been with the school since it<br />

was founded in 1860 by Captain<br />

William Morgan, who used part<br />

of his Morgan’s Valley house as<br />

a classroom.<br />

The school was established at<br />

Heathcote Valley School’s bronze bell<br />

was stolen during the school holidays.<br />

its current location in 1864.<br />

The bell, which Ellison<br />

thought weighed about 15-20kg,<br />

had a cast iron striker.<br />

Many generations of children<br />

had heard the bell to go out to<br />

play or come back into class, he<br />

said.<br />

The school has been loaned<br />

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CROSSWORD<br />

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17 18<br />

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S K I<br />

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Good 17 Very Good 20 Excellent 23<br />

letters, including plurals, can you make<br />

Solution 320: cedi, cap, deck, dice, dick, die, dike,<br />

dip, epic, ice, iced, kepi, kid, kip, peck, pic, pick,<br />

PICKED, pie, pied, pike, piked.<br />

27 28<br />

29 30<br />

31 32<br />

33 34<br />

Across<br />

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24. Become smaller (6)<br />

25. Dash (6)<br />

26. Seek (6)<br />

29. Close (4)<br />

30. Small, sheltered bay (4)<br />

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27. Stripe, 28. Teeter, 31. Decline, 32. Oarsman, 33. Debtor, 34. Exhale.<br />

Down: 2. Apparel, 3. Ruined, 4. Drew, 5. Sham, 6. Reason, 7. Wayward, 8.<br />

Acidic, 9. Gentry, 13. Reverie, 14. Maximum, 15. Coconut, 20. Beside, 21.<br />

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